xx xxx
xxxx: Served
on the Templar Committee (Rationalisation of Air Power)

6 Nov 1965:Senior Air Liaison Officer, Canada.

22 Jan 1968:Director of Air Staff Plans and Programmes.

1 Jan 1970:AOC, No 22 Group.

13 Dec 1971:Commander, HQ Southern Maritime Air Region.

14 Apr
1973: Economy Project
Officer (RAF)

Retiring from the RAF, he joined
the Council of Ardingly College and Economy Project Officer remaining in both
posts until 1974.In 1977 he was
appointed Co-ordinator of Anglo-American Relations at the Ministry of Defence.

Pilot
Officer Plumtree was the pilot and Sergeant Kinsey the air gunner of an aircraft
detailed to test a new type of bomb sight during a patrol over the North Sea. At
the far end of the patrol, sixteen enemy vessels were sighted, eight within the
harbour of an enemy port and eight outside. Pilot Officer Plumtree dived from
3,000 to 800 feet to attack the vessels in the harbour in the face of intense
anti-aircraft fire. Whilst making his escape he attacked an army camp with
machine-gun fire at almost ground level, and then climbed to seek cloud cover
out at sea. At this point an attack was made by three Messerschmitts, which
riddled the aircraft with bullets and shells and wounded all members of the
crew. Sergeant Kinsey

held
off the enemy and forced one to break off the engagement. Keeping his pilot
informed of the position, he operated his gun until the other two were lost in
the clouds.In spite of injuries,
Pilot Officer Plumtree then brought the aircraft safely back to an aerodrome in
England.”